"The temptation is to speak in muffled tones about an issue such as the right of the people of Palestine… yet we would be less than human if we did so."
Nelson Mandela

srijeda, 23. studenoga 2011.

Uglavnom linkovi – Palestina/Izrael

Report: Brazil's military ties with Israel (English and Portuguese)This 31 pages report details the active support of the Brazilian state for the Israeli arms industry as well as the Israeli interests in and profits from Brazil's military and defense industry. It finally confronts these realities with the framework of economic, legal and political interests and obligations of Brazil.Read more...

Palestinian Students Call on their European Peers to Boycott Israeli ApartheidThere was no negotiating with such oppression based on race – there was only one word: BOYCOTT. Just as students around the world were banning Barclays bank from campuses for their investment in South African Apartheid in the 1980s, this year we call on you to take similar steps to end Israel's systematic brutality. To say, "We will no longer be complicit!", in the decades of ethnic cleansing, military occupation, medieval blockade that has lead to so much tragedy and broken dreams for our youth and students.Read more...

Palestine takes its place in the global farmers' struggleThe “Farmers, rural workers and fishermen's conference: Building Via Campesina in Palestine,” which took place in early November, aimed to create an international network of farmers to support the Palestinian farmers' struggle against the occupation and continued confiscation of land. Held in Al Arroub College, inside the Al Arroub refugee camp in the Hebron district, the conference focused on building both short and long-term strategies to support the popular struggle in Palestine.Read more…

The international appeal of the Palestinian struggleWith the expansion and diversification of international solidarity movements, new methods and tools have been developed. It is a holistic movement that covers the fields of politics, culture, development, and society. Actions include, solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners, protecting the olive harvest, rebuilding homes destroyed by the Occupation, replanting trees that have been uprooted or incinerated, marketing Palestinian products, escorting Palestinian children to school to protect them against settlers' aggression, digging water wells, hosting theatre and music festivals, meetings, making drawings and solidarity mottos in all world languages to cover the Apartheid Wall, and even praying. Add to this, the boycotting of Israeli products and other sanctions that try to pressure upon Israel to put an end to the Occupation and to the policies of settlement expansion and confiscation of Palestinian land.Read more…

Remembrance in Beit HanounOn November 8, 2006 at six in the morning the Israeli army began shelling Beit Hanoun. The shells landed on the houses of the A'athamnah and the Kafarnah families. Not just one shell, the shelling continued for fifteen minutes. Round after round fell on their houses. Nineteen people were killed, nine children, four women and six men. The youngest was only a baby of a couple of months, the oldest a 73 year old woman. Forty more people were injured. They were all civilians, not even the Israeli army bothers to claim that they were armed; they were sleeping in their beds.Read more...